Research Engineering in Radio Astronomy

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   Research engineering in radio astronomy Gijs Molenaar 22 May 2019

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   Where to start? • First job in 1998 • Security

   administrator local internet provider • While studying MBO electrotechniek
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   Internship SARA • 2001 • Maintain beowulf cluster • Now

   SURFsara
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    “Design patterns and software techniques for large scale, open and

    reproducible data reduction”
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    Partially observing in Fourier space

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    Dirty PSF Ground truth

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    Train data • Spiel • CWL based Simulator • Make

    a random sky (point sources) • Run telescope in reverse https://github.com/gijzelaerr/spiel/
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    2017

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    Future • Finish PhD • More radio astronomy? • Interesting

    new adventures • Software engineering / management • Machine learning / data science
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    question?